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UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

THOMAS JOHN QUINN AND DONALD MOLELLAN, OF VVOODSTOOK, ONTARIO,

- CANADA.

DEVICE FOR CHECKING HORSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,580, dated April 24, 1888.

Application filed May 24, 1887. Serial No. 239.263. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS JOHN QUINN and DONALD MoLnLLAN, both subjects of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, residing at ford, in the Province of Ontario, in the Do minion of Canada, have invented a new and useful Steel Horse Oheekrein and Nose-Extender, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a check-rein for breaking and training horses; and the objects of our invention are, first, for the purpose of extending and retaining the horses nose to the proper distance, so as to prevent a horse from curbing its head toward its neck or chest, and thereby interfering with its wind, and at the same time allowing freedom of motion in the direction opposite from that guarded hereinafter described, to prevent a horse from lifting its head too high, but allowing freedom ofmotionintheoppositedirection. Neattain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the checkrein for the right side of the horses head, there being a similar one on the left.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of our invention in position on a horse. Fig. 2 is a side device.

B A, the longer arm or ehec-krein, is a fiat flexible steel rod or bar, which is joined by, and is movable around, a rivet at the elbow A piece. At its extremity O there is a spring safety-lock with a slot to receive the bit. The slot in the head of the arm or cheek-piece A O, covered by the lock when adjusted, as repredotted lines from G to O, and the safety-lock, which is attached at the extremity by a rivet upon which it hinges, is fastened at the point Q on a catch. Its position when opened is inextremities of the longer arms on either side run through the terret-rings and are attached by means of a strap to each other at the point N on the right and left sides, and at the point A by a strap and buckle, L, to the billet of crown-piece of bridle or to the overcheckbillet.

The two arms B A and A O are adjusted by means of the curved brace D E, fixed at the point Dby a rivet to arm AG, and kept in its 5 place on the arm B A by the movable iron loop G, and having on its outer surface the sliding spring F H, which is attached to the brace D E, along which it slides, by the clasp at F, and has a catch on its inner surface at 6d for the purpose of extending the horses nose to the proper distance, so as to prevent it from curbing its head toward its neck or chest and thereby interfering with its wind. This same sliding spring can also be used for pre* venting the horse from lifting its head too high by adjusting the catch at H on the sliding spring over the movable loop G. When adj nsted either way, it gives by means of the sliding spring freedom of motion to the horses head in the opposite direction from that guarded against by means of this invention.

Ve make no claim to the mode of fastening the arms to the crown-piece, nor to each other at the elbow A, nor to the brace, for we are aware these are not new; but

, hat we claim as our inventiomand desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

The combination of the longerarm or checkrein and the shorter armor cheek-piece A O,

THOMAS JOHN QUIN N DONALD MoLELLAN.

Witnesses: A

JOHN HENRY BROWN, G120. SMITH. 

